mad - Story 87420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headache throbbed behind her eyes, a relentless, punishing rhythm. Maya dragged herself along the sidewalk, each step a monumental effort. She found the wallet tangled in the branches of a scraggly bush.

She opened it. The money was more than enough. More than enough to escape, to reinvent, to finally, finally be free. That constant feeling, the pressure, the obligation.

She closed the wallet, and then she kicked the bush. She would make them all pay.

Emotion: mad

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -1.94 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.26

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion mad. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 mad stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the mad emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the mad vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.448
`骂`	0.344
`est`	0.340
`🤬`	0.336
`aggravated`	0.332

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.495
`de`	-0.485
`la`	-0.387
`H`	-0.344
`latter`	-0.290